CA2133294A1 - Fixed cellular communications system - Google Patents
Fixed cellular communications systemInfo
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- H04W84/02—Hierarchically pre-organised networks, e.g. paging networks, cellular networks, WLAN [Wireless Local Area Network] or WLL [Wireless Local Loop]
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Abstract
SUMMARY
Fixed cellular communications system Consisting of a cellular mobile communications network (CS) that provides coverage of voice and/or data communications services to terminals located in a set of cells in any one of which there can be at least one fixed cellular terminal (4) that communicates, on one side, by radio, with one of the base stations (3) of the cellular mobile communications network (CS) and on the other side, by cable, with at least one base station (6) of a cordless communications system (WS) through control and interface means that perform the adaptation between the two systems to provide communications services to a number of cordless terminals (7).
When the cellular communication system (CS) makes use of time division multiple access technology, TDMA, for example GSM, one single radio transceiver is connected to a transceiver control means to manage the radio channel allocations, so that it can support simultaneously as many communications channels as possible without there being temporal overlapping of channels.
Fixed cellular communications system Consisting of a cellular mobile communications network (CS) that provides coverage of voice and/or data communications services to terminals located in a set of cells in any one of which there can be at least one fixed cellular terminal (4) that communicates, on one side, by radio, with one of the base stations (3) of the cellular mobile communications network (CS) and on the other side, by cable, with at least one base station (6) of a cordless communications system (WS) through control and interface means that perform the adaptation between the two systems to provide communications services to a number of cordless terminals (7).
When the cellular communication system (CS) makes use of time division multiple access technology, TDMA, for example GSM, one single radio transceiver is connected to a transceiver control means to manage the radio channel allocations, so that it can support simultaneously as many communications channels as possible without there being temporal overlapping of channels.
Description
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FlXEV CEl .LULAR COMMUNICATIONS S~YSTEM
OB!ECT OF THIE INVENTIC)N
This invention concerns a cor~lmunications system for the provision of voice and/or data services to a set of terminals either in the form of s telephones or of any other kind (facsimile machines, data modems, etc.), in environments where ~ere is still MO fixed commul~ications infrastructure, or where the latter is already saturated and an operational "island" is planned where this communications service will be offered.
The system described in this document is of particular application in o zones where there exists coverage by some cellular mobile service, though it also is of great interest in zones where there is no such service and an installation is required urgently or where the cost is less th~n that of a fixedservice.
!I~ECGROUND TO THE INVENTIQ~
s The problem of providing a communications service in a very short space of time to certain environments where there is still no infrastructure (as usually occurs in new development areas outside large cities), or in those zones where there already exists such an infrastructure but which is now sahlrated, has resulted in numerous resources having been dedicated to the definition and design of specific networks that provide a solution for this situation, this solution being preferably based on existing networks or new ones that are easy and quick to install.
Since the introduction of cellular mobile systems, their use has been extended to other purposes than those for ~vhich they were or;ginally conceived. One of the most attractive from the point of view outlined above is that known as "fixed cellular network", which is based on the use of terminals compatible with the cellular network of which it makes usle, in a fixed environment. The antenna of the system is usually Ivdged in a fixed site (normally on roofs) and is usually of the directional type, ps~inted towards the base station that covers the cell in which it is located.
All this is explained in the US pal:ent 4658096, in which the base stations of a cellular system communicate with fixed cellular terminals that comprise the corresponding interface systems each of which offers a single subscriber line to which may be connected a stanclard telephone, as well as is with the corresponding cellular mobile terminals. In the same documen~ a -`` 2iL~32~
configuration is also shown in which a communications service is provided for a number of standard telephones, all of the latter being connected to a unit that acts as a concentrator for sharing the communications channels offered by a smaller number of fixed cellular terminals and thereby optimising the existing resources.
The fixed cellular terminals, as indicated in above patent, provide as many subscriber lines as cellular transceivers there are. When a greater nurnber of subscriber lines is needed, some cellular transceivers are grouped.
This kind of fixed cellular service is an alternative available to lo telecommunications operators who wish to offer their services in determined environrnents rapidly, and which must desirably be completely transparent for the user in all aspects like, for example, numbering, charging, etc.
On the other hand, this type of fixed cellular terminal does not make use of the features of mobility between cells, roaming for the mobile ls terminal, etc., consequently the use of cellular service channels does not detract significantly from the potential of the cellular mobile system as such, since the load of "fixed" channels occurs only on one base station, and their maximum number is limited and known.
Nonetheless, optimum economic benefit is not achieved because it is ~; 20 necessary to construct a local infrastructure in the subscribers' building in -` ~ order to distribute the available lines over the set of fixed cellular terminals and have the same number of telephone sets (or terrninals of a different type) in order to cover the communications requirements of the local system.
CHARACTIERISATION OF T} lE lNVENTlON
2s The communications system according to this invention comprises a cellular mobile communications network that offers communications coverage for voice and/or data services, in which in one of its cells there is at least one fixed cellular terminal ~at communicates, by radio, with one of the base stations of ~e cellu~ar system and wherein this fixed cellular terminal is joined to at least one base station equipment of a cordless communications system through control and interface means in order to carry out the rnatching operations between ~e two systems and, optionally, concentration of the number of communications channels offered to the number of channels available in order to provide in this way a communications service to a number of cordless terminals.
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The fixed cellular terminal so formed comprises one or more cellular mobile terminal transceivers, one or more base station transceivers of a cordless communications system and control and interface means that incorporate the matching functions between the two transceivers of the s cellular and cordless systems, for both analogue and digital systems.
When the cellular radio transceiver is of the type of time division multiple access, TDMA, transceiver control means manage the radio chalmels allowing th~t tl ey can support simultaneously as many communication channels as possible without temporal overlapping of 10 channels.
As result of the application of this invention, a communications system is made available that can be quickly implemented, is inexpensive, and can provide a number of subscribers with a mobile service within a limited environment, that permits optimisation of the available resources in 15 terms of the number of communications channels offered.
BRllEF F~TN~TE5 TO TH~ Fl~;~lRES
A fuller explanation of the invention can be found in the description of the invention based on the accompanying figures in which:
- figure 1 shows the layout of a communications network based on a 20 cellular system with fixed cellular terminals and fixed local infrastructure, - figure 2 shows an alternative configuration according to the invention, in which the fixed infrastructure in the subscriber building has been replaced by a cordless communications system, - figure 3 shows the arrangerrlent with a fixed cellulaT terminal, the 2s base station of a cordless communications system, and the control and interface .means between the two, - figure 4 shows the constitution of an integrated fixed cellular equipment, consisting of a radio transceiver compatible with the cellular one, the control and interface means, and a radio transceiver compatible with the 30 cordless cornmunications system according to the invention, - figure 5 shows the block diagram of a fixecl cellular terminal for a single communications channel available according to the state of the art, - figure 6 shows the block diagram of a multi-subscriber fixed cellular terminal that llas a certaill number available of communications channels, ~ . ~
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- figure 7 shows the block diagram of a multi-subscriber fixed cellular terminal accordin~ to the invention, and - figure 8 shows the block diagram of above multi-subscriber fixed cellular terminal including concentrating means in order to extend the 5 number or subcriber lines.
RIPTION OE~ THE INVENTION
According to the state of the art, there exists a cellular mobile communications network CS which has a mobile switching centre 2 that is connected to a more extensive communications network, for example, the 10 public switching network 1. To this mobile switching centre 2 is connected a set of base stations 3 belonging to the cellular mobile communications network CS, which are spread over a deterrnined zvne to provide it with cellular coverage.
In addition, though not indicated! there is a set of required 1S functional units, like base station controllers, maintenance centre, charging centre, etc.
With such an infrastructure already existing, it is possible to set up communications links between a mobile unit that is situated in any of the defined cells and the base station 3 of the mobile cellular communications 20 network CS corresponding to this cell.
For the object of the invention, a cellular terminal will be used, essentially of the standarcl type but to which is coupled a fixed directional antenna whose main lobe points to the base station with which it establishes comm~mication, and where control and interf~ce means 9 are added tn rnake 2s a communications charmel available. Next, as is shown in figure 2, a base station 6 of a cordless communications system WS is connected so that a set of cordless terminals 7, either of the telephone type or of any other kind, can gain access to an available commul~ications channel in the cellular mobile communications network C5 through the equipment so arranged and which 30 is termed a fixed cellular terminal 4, so that ~is cordless communications system WS can also be used as a local branch exchange for internal communications.
This arrangement is also compatible with another set of con~entional telephones 5 or other type of fixed terminals that can have access to the 3s commw~ications chalmel of the fixed cellular terminal 4 eilher through a `````:` 2~32~
direct connection to a subscriber line or through an intervening radiolink as is indicated in figure 2, by means of corresponding radiolink equipments 8.
One single fixed cellular terminal 4, as shown in figure 5, comprises a radio transceiver I~TX which is connected to the antenna ANT to s communicate, via radio, with a base station 3 and to control and interface means 9 (here included in the same housing) to pxovide a communication chalmel to a greater number of subscribee. It also comprises a power supply unit PWS that is connected to the mains AC and a battery system BAT for supplying the unit in case that the mains AC is out of service.
These communication channels provided by the control and interface means 9 are used for providing subscriber lines to the base station 6 of a cordless cornmunications system WS (figure 3) and to standard telephones 5 in a direct way or through radiolink equipments 8.
When the resulting system has to be dimensioned for a traffic level 5 greater than that a single communications channel of the cellular mobile communications networlc CS can support, it is possible to centralise the channels offered by various mobile terminals so that, by means of the aforementioned control and interface means 9 that incorporate the previously described functions, they offer a greater number of 20 communications channels.
This is shown in figure 6, where several radio transceivers RTX are connected, in one part, to the antenna ANT through a duplexor DX and, in the other part, to the control and interface means 9 to provicle a greater number of telephone lines by means of corresponding subscriber line 2s interfaces SL.
Although the number of mobile terrninals used, and consequently the maximum number of communications cham~els available is superior to one, in a system like that described it is normal to house them in a single rack with a common ~ower supply. Therefore the fixed cellular terminal 4 so 30 formed is of the multisubscriber type, and this terminal is to be understooclin a broad sense and independent of the number of mobile terminals that it has and/or chamlels available.
The control and interface rneans 9 perform, arnong others, the functions of numbering conversion (when t~us is necessary) between the :~s cellular system and the system used in the public switching network, as well ` ~ 2~ 3329~
as other adaptatiol1s required to the signals (levels, types, codes).
The channels available, as shown in figure 3, are connected to the base station 6 of a cordless communications system WS, for which the aforementioned control and interface means 9 also perform the adaptation of s signals between the cellular and cordless systems so that handshaking can take place between the two systems.
Nevertheless, when the cellular system is based on time clivision multiple access, TDMA, technology, the raclio transceiver RTX incorporated in these terminals only works during the corresponding part of a data burst lo because this is how the controller for this transceiver operates. Por the fixed cellular terminal of the invention, as can be observed in figure 7, a cellular radio transceiver I~TX is used, of the type employed for cellular mobile terminals of GSM type fnr installce, but to which transceiver control means 19 are connected to manage the radio channels so that the assembly so formed can, at most, support as many communications channels as there are bursts defined per frame in the TDMA system.
The aforementioned transceiver control means 19 can also perform channel concentrating functions in order to make available an even greatei number of subscriber lines, or this function may be incorporated later in the control and interface means 9, as shown in figure 8.
This adaptation function must be such that the end user is transparent for the processes carried out by the control and mterface means 9, so that both the subscriber numbers and the charging carried out by the operators are the same as if the connection to the public switching network were made directly.
If the number of channels available were still insufficient, clearly use would be made of similar, new transceivers in order to achieve a greater number of communications channels and in which the control means have to manage the total set of cellular radio transceivers.
~inally, one of the cellular radio transceivers could be of another type that is compatible, not with the cellular network employed up until now, but with a second network either cellular or of another type in order to provide a certain number of alternative channels not dependent on the availability of chalmels in the cell where this fixed cellular terminal is located.
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FlXEV CEl .LULAR COMMUNICATIONS S~YSTEM
OB!ECT OF THIE INVENTIC)N
This invention concerns a cor~lmunications system for the provision of voice and/or data services to a set of terminals either in the form of s telephones or of any other kind (facsimile machines, data modems, etc.), in environments where ~ere is still MO fixed commul~ications infrastructure, or where the latter is already saturated and an operational "island" is planned where this communications service will be offered.
The system described in this document is of particular application in o zones where there exists coverage by some cellular mobile service, though it also is of great interest in zones where there is no such service and an installation is required urgently or where the cost is less th~n that of a fixedservice.
!I~ECGROUND TO THE INVENTIQ~
s The problem of providing a communications service in a very short space of time to certain environments where there is still no infrastructure (as usually occurs in new development areas outside large cities), or in those zones where there already exists such an infrastructure but which is now sahlrated, has resulted in numerous resources having been dedicated to the definition and design of specific networks that provide a solution for this situation, this solution being preferably based on existing networks or new ones that are easy and quick to install.
Since the introduction of cellular mobile systems, their use has been extended to other purposes than those for ~vhich they were or;ginally conceived. One of the most attractive from the point of view outlined above is that known as "fixed cellular network", which is based on the use of terminals compatible with the cellular network of which it makes usle, in a fixed environment. The antenna of the system is usually Ivdged in a fixed site (normally on roofs) and is usually of the directional type, ps~inted towards the base station that covers the cell in which it is located.
All this is explained in the US pal:ent 4658096, in which the base stations of a cellular system communicate with fixed cellular terminals that comprise the corresponding interface systems each of which offers a single subscriber line to which may be connected a stanclard telephone, as well as is with the corresponding cellular mobile terminals. In the same documen~ a -`` 2iL~32~
configuration is also shown in which a communications service is provided for a number of standard telephones, all of the latter being connected to a unit that acts as a concentrator for sharing the communications channels offered by a smaller number of fixed cellular terminals and thereby optimising the existing resources.
The fixed cellular terminals, as indicated in above patent, provide as many subscriber lines as cellular transceivers there are. When a greater nurnber of subscriber lines is needed, some cellular transceivers are grouped.
This kind of fixed cellular service is an alternative available to lo telecommunications operators who wish to offer their services in determined environrnents rapidly, and which must desirably be completely transparent for the user in all aspects like, for example, numbering, charging, etc.
On the other hand, this type of fixed cellular terminal does not make use of the features of mobility between cells, roaming for the mobile ls terminal, etc., consequently the use of cellular service channels does not detract significantly from the potential of the cellular mobile system as such, since the load of "fixed" channels occurs only on one base station, and their maximum number is limited and known.
Nonetheless, optimum economic benefit is not achieved because it is ~; 20 necessary to construct a local infrastructure in the subscribers' building in -` ~ order to distribute the available lines over the set of fixed cellular terminals and have the same number of telephone sets (or terrninals of a different type) in order to cover the communications requirements of the local system.
CHARACTIERISATION OF T} lE lNVENTlON
2s The communications system according to this invention comprises a cellular mobile communications network that offers communications coverage for voice and/or data services, in which in one of its cells there is at least one fixed cellular terminal ~at communicates, by radio, with one of the base stations of ~e cellu~ar system and wherein this fixed cellular terminal is joined to at least one base station equipment of a cordless communications system through control and interface means in order to carry out the rnatching operations between ~e two systems and, optionally, concentration of the number of communications channels offered to the number of channels available in order to provide in this way a communications service to a number of cordless terminals.
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The fixed cellular terminal so formed comprises one or more cellular mobile terminal transceivers, one or more base station transceivers of a cordless communications system and control and interface means that incorporate the matching functions between the two transceivers of the s cellular and cordless systems, for both analogue and digital systems.
When the cellular radio transceiver is of the type of time division multiple access, TDMA, transceiver control means manage the radio chalmels allowing th~t tl ey can support simultaneously as many communication channels as possible without temporal overlapping of 10 channels.
As result of the application of this invention, a communications system is made available that can be quickly implemented, is inexpensive, and can provide a number of subscribers with a mobile service within a limited environment, that permits optimisation of the available resources in 15 terms of the number of communications channels offered.
BRllEF F~TN~TE5 TO TH~ Fl~;~lRES
A fuller explanation of the invention can be found in the description of the invention based on the accompanying figures in which:
- figure 1 shows the layout of a communications network based on a 20 cellular system with fixed cellular terminals and fixed local infrastructure, - figure 2 shows an alternative configuration according to the invention, in which the fixed infrastructure in the subscriber building has been replaced by a cordless communications system, - figure 3 shows the arrangerrlent with a fixed cellulaT terminal, the 2s base station of a cordless communications system, and the control and interface .means between the two, - figure 4 shows the constitution of an integrated fixed cellular equipment, consisting of a radio transceiver compatible with the cellular one, the control and interface means, and a radio transceiver compatible with the 30 cordless cornmunications system according to the invention, - figure 5 shows the block diagram of a fixecl cellular terminal for a single communications channel available according to the state of the art, - figure 6 shows the block diagram of a multi-subscriber fixed cellular terminal that llas a certaill number available of communications channels, ~ . ~
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- figure 7 shows the block diagram of a multi-subscriber fixed cellular terminal accordin~ to the invention, and - figure 8 shows the block diagram of above multi-subscriber fixed cellular terminal including concentrating means in order to extend the 5 number or subcriber lines.
RIPTION OE~ THE INVENTION
According to the state of the art, there exists a cellular mobile communications network CS which has a mobile switching centre 2 that is connected to a more extensive communications network, for example, the 10 public switching network 1. To this mobile switching centre 2 is connected a set of base stations 3 belonging to the cellular mobile communications network CS, which are spread over a deterrnined zvne to provide it with cellular coverage.
In addition, though not indicated! there is a set of required 1S functional units, like base station controllers, maintenance centre, charging centre, etc.
With such an infrastructure already existing, it is possible to set up communications links between a mobile unit that is situated in any of the defined cells and the base station 3 of the mobile cellular communications 20 network CS corresponding to this cell.
For the object of the invention, a cellular terminal will be used, essentially of the standarcl type but to which is coupled a fixed directional antenna whose main lobe points to the base station with which it establishes comm~mication, and where control and interf~ce means 9 are added tn rnake 2s a communications charmel available. Next, as is shown in figure 2, a base station 6 of a cordless communications system WS is connected so that a set of cordless terminals 7, either of the telephone type or of any other kind, can gain access to an available commul~ications channel in the cellular mobile communications network C5 through the equipment so arranged and which 30 is termed a fixed cellular terminal 4, so that ~is cordless communications system WS can also be used as a local branch exchange for internal communications.
This arrangement is also compatible with another set of con~entional telephones 5 or other type of fixed terminals that can have access to the 3s commw~ications chalmel of the fixed cellular terminal 4 eilher through a `````:` 2~32~
direct connection to a subscriber line or through an intervening radiolink as is indicated in figure 2, by means of corresponding radiolink equipments 8.
One single fixed cellular terminal 4, as shown in figure 5, comprises a radio transceiver I~TX which is connected to the antenna ANT to s communicate, via radio, with a base station 3 and to control and interface means 9 (here included in the same housing) to pxovide a communication chalmel to a greater number of subscribee. It also comprises a power supply unit PWS that is connected to the mains AC and a battery system BAT for supplying the unit in case that the mains AC is out of service.
These communication channels provided by the control and interface means 9 are used for providing subscriber lines to the base station 6 of a cordless cornmunications system WS (figure 3) and to standard telephones 5 in a direct way or through radiolink equipments 8.
When the resulting system has to be dimensioned for a traffic level 5 greater than that a single communications channel of the cellular mobile communications networlc CS can support, it is possible to centralise the channels offered by various mobile terminals so that, by means of the aforementioned control and interface means 9 that incorporate the previously described functions, they offer a greater number of 20 communications channels.
This is shown in figure 6, where several radio transceivers RTX are connected, in one part, to the antenna ANT through a duplexor DX and, in the other part, to the control and interface means 9 to provicle a greater number of telephone lines by means of corresponding subscriber line 2s interfaces SL.
Although the number of mobile terrninals used, and consequently the maximum number of communications cham~els available is superior to one, in a system like that described it is normal to house them in a single rack with a common ~ower supply. Therefore the fixed cellular terminal 4 so 30 formed is of the multisubscriber type, and this terminal is to be understooclin a broad sense and independent of the number of mobile terminals that it has and/or chamlels available.
The control and interface rneans 9 perform, arnong others, the functions of numbering conversion (when t~us is necessary) between the :~s cellular system and the system used in the public switching network, as well ` ~ 2~ 3329~
as other adaptatiol1s required to the signals (levels, types, codes).
The channels available, as shown in figure 3, are connected to the base station 6 of a cordless communications system WS, for which the aforementioned control and interface means 9 also perform the adaptation of s signals between the cellular and cordless systems so that handshaking can take place between the two systems.
Nevertheless, when the cellular system is based on time clivision multiple access, TDMA, technology, the raclio transceiver RTX incorporated in these terminals only works during the corresponding part of a data burst lo because this is how the controller for this transceiver operates. Por the fixed cellular terminal of the invention, as can be observed in figure 7, a cellular radio transceiver I~TX is used, of the type employed for cellular mobile terminals of GSM type fnr installce, but to which transceiver control means 19 are connected to manage the radio channels so that the assembly so formed can, at most, support as many communications channels as there are bursts defined per frame in the TDMA system.
The aforementioned transceiver control means 19 can also perform channel concentrating functions in order to make available an even greatei number of subscriber lines, or this function may be incorporated later in the control and interface means 9, as shown in figure 8.
This adaptation function must be such that the end user is transparent for the processes carried out by the control and mterface means 9, so that both the subscriber numbers and the charging carried out by the operators are the same as if the connection to the public switching network were made directly.
If the number of channels available were still insufficient, clearly use would be made of similar, new transceivers in order to achieve a greater number of communications channels and in which the control means have to manage the total set of cellular radio transceivers.
~inally, one of the cellular radio transceivers could be of another type that is compatible, not with the cellular network employed up until now, but with a second network either cellular or of another type in order to provide a certain number of alternative channels not dependent on the availability of chalmels in the cell where this fixed cellular terminal is located.
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Claims (9)
1.- FIXED CELLULAR COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM composed by a first cellular mobile communications network (CS) that provides communications coverage for voice and/or data services, in which in any of the cells there is at least one fixed cellular terminal (4) that communicates byradio with one of the base stations (3) and characterised in that the fixed cellular terminal (4) is joined to at least one base station equipment (6) of a cordless communications system (WS), through control and interface means (9) that perform the adaptation of information and control channels between the two systems, in order to provide communications services to a number of cordless terminals (7).
2.- COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM according to claim 1 characterised in that the fixed cellular terminal (4) that communicates with at least one base station (3) of the cellular mobile communications network (CS) comprises at least one cellular transceiver obtained from a cellular mobile terminal, at least one base station transceiver of a cordless communications system (WS) and control and interface means (9) that incorporate the functions for adapting the two transceivers of the cellular and cordless systems, and for concentrating, when this is necessary, the number of channels offered to the number of channels available.
3.- COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM according to claim 1 characterised in that the control and interface means (9) that perform the adaptation of the two systems, cellular and cordless, also permit the connection of standard terminals (5) through telephone lines or by means of radiolink equipments (8).
4.- COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM according to claims 1 and 2 characterised in that both the cellular mobile communications network (CS) and the cordless communications system (WS) can be of either the analogue or of the digital type.
5.- COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM according to claim 1 characterised in that the control and interface means (9) also permit the setting up of internal communications between cordless terminals (7) without making use of the communications channels of the cellular network, and the centralising of the communications channels offered to both the cordless terminals (7) and to the fixed terminals (5).
6.- FIXED CELLULAR TERMINAL for use in above cellular mobile networks (CS) that communicates with at least one of its base stations (3) in order to provide voice and/or data communications to one or more subscribers characterised in that it comprises a single cellular radio transceiver (RTX) of time division multiple access, TDMA, technology, and transceiver control means (19) connected to this cellular transceiver (RTX) to manage the radio channels, so that they can support simultaneously as many communications channels as possible without there being temporal overlapping of channels, so that it is possible to offer the same number of subscriber lines through the corresponding subscriber line interfaces (SL).
7.- FIXED CELLULAR TERMINAL according to claim 6, characterised in that it also comprises control and interface means (9) that extend the number of channels available through the cellular transceiver into a greater number of subscriber lines.
8.- FIXED CELLULAR TERMINAL according to claim 6 characterised in that instead of a single cellular radio transceiver (RTX), it comprises a number of these connected, on the radiofrequency side, to a single antenna system (ANT) in order to make available a greater number of communications channels.
9.- FIXED CELLULAR TERMINAL according to claim 8, characterised in that it also communicates with a second communications network with cellular access or with another communications network of different types through point to point or point to multipoint radiolinks in order to provide another number of alternative channels.
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| ES9302066A ES2079287B1 (en) | 1993-09-30 | 1993-09-30 | FIXED CELL TERMINAL. |
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